Job DescriptionIn this role you will bridge the gap between Software Engineering and QA, driving automated build and deployment systems, enforcing release gating, and maintaining lab infrastructure health.Additionally, as part of an evolving team, you will also have the opportunity to expand into broader DevOps practicesbuilding AI agents into automated and intelligent production investigation tooling into our operational workflows.
As a Senior Release Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Designing and maintaining scalable pipelines and develop custom agentic and CLI tools to optimize build workflows.
- Acting as the final release authority, enforcing strict release scheduling, quality gates and compliance checks in coordination with QA and Engineering.
- Identifying, triaging, and resolving environment-level issues (build node outages, test lab provisioning failures, network/dependency blocks) to keep pipeline throughput high.
- Integrating AI agents and eval frameworks into CI/CD pipelines to automate testing and log analysis
- Participating in a larger agentic devops group designing AI agents that can handle production issue monitoring and escalation triaging and management
Do what you loveTo be successful in this role you will:
- Have 5+ years of experience in Software Release Engineering, DevOps, or Build/Test Automation roles
- Possess expertise in continuous integration and delivery tools (e.g., Cloudbee, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
- Demonstrate proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Bash. Knowledge of Ruby is ideal
- Have experience with Docker and container registry management
- Have working knowledge of Linux system
- Have working knowledge of AI tooling and agentic workflow
CompensationAkamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 79,600 - 143,400 CAD/year; a candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
